Christmas celebrated by people playing instruments, eating and drinking: a man with white hair and a long white beard sitting watching a small man stirring punch in a bowl. Engraving by T. Hollis, 1851, after R.W. Buss.

[London] : [Hogarth]

1 print : engraving ; image 20.9 x 25.6 cm

Christmas. The Wassail bowl. R.W. Buss. T. Hollis.

Graham Everitt, English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century, London 1893, pp. 365-366 ("For Mr. Hogarth, of the Haymarket, he [Buss] painted four small subjects illustrative of Christmas, entitled, The waits; Bringing in the boar's head; The yule log; and The wassail bowl; all afterwards engraved.")

Wellcome Collection 32641i